Inventions to keep people from driving a car without headlights: (illegal at night)

ABSTRACT

(OLD SITUATION) If yours or someone elses car headlights are not shining you may drive down the highway at night (or a rainy night) and find your car colliding into another car.  
     (NEW SITUATION) With more headlights shining you are much less likely to experience that undesirable situation.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

I have noticed that there is such a thing as a warning buzzard if theturn signal lights don't work.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention involves highway safety, specifically the making of safercars.

I hope to make sure that cars and trucks always drive with; not withoutheadlights at night. Even the driver who always seems to turn hisheadlights on; might inadvertently not turn them on. Also, there are anumber of drivers who carelessly don't turn on their headlights.

I almost had an accident because of headlights. If you start off from awell lit gas station; all of those lights make it difficult to notice bylooking beyond the front of the car if the headlights are on. Thentravel onto a street with a lot of street lights (glare), and it isagain difficult to tell by looking beyond the front of the car if theheadlights are on especially if it is raining. With all that rain, othercars may not see your car if only your parking lights are on.

At night you can't tell from the car dashboard meters and gauges if thesituation exist where the headlights are off, and only the parkinglights are on. See invention #3.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

My inventions endeaver to keep car headlights on one way or another.

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

invention 1 A car that has parking lights and headlights that shinewhenever the engine is running. And a lights not working warning light,buzzard or voice.

Note; Currently at night you can't tell if the headlights and parkinglights are on, or if only the parking lights are on because thedashboard including the speedometer is lit up similarly in both cases.

-   -   Inventions 2&3 tend to correct the problem.

invention 2 A car with a switch which turns on the parking lights andpart of the dashboard illumination of the speedometer, meters andgauges; and another switch which turns on the headlights and the rest ofthe dashboard illumination of the speedometer, meters and gauges.

invention 3 A car with a warning light, buzzard or voice which indicatesthat the headlights are not on while the parking lights may be on.

invention 4 A car equipped with a dashboard clock that auto-switches theheadlights and parking lights on and off at a certain time.

Dust and dawn occur at a time which is approxi-3 minutes different fromthe previous day. So a smart enough clock would be able to switch thelights on at dusk and off at dawn each day. The clock could switch thelights on for the driver whose trip begins at night. This car could havea manual light switch too for daylight rainstorms. And a warning light,buzzard or voice in case this mechanism fails.

1. Cars that have headlights and parking lights which shine whenever theengine is running (& a lights out warning buzzard, light or voice). 2.Cars with a switch which turns on the parking lights and part of thedashboard illumination of the speedometer, meters and gauges; andanother switch which turns on the headlights and the rest of thedashboard illumination of the speedometer, meters and gauges.
 3. Carswith warning buzzards, lights or voices to let you know if only theparking lights are on, and not the headlights and the parking lights. 4.Cars which automatically turn on the parking lights and the headlights.(& a mechanism not working warning light buzzard or voice)